9/11 WTC 7 Demolition - Westside Highway CBS Camera Angle

WTC Building 7 was one of the largest buildings in downtown Manhattan. It was 47 stories tall, about half the height of the Towers, and took up an entire city block. It was 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower (the North Tower, WTC 1), and was a steel-framed, concrete structure. WTC Building 7 -- on its 23rd floor -- housed an Emergency Command Center for the City of New York that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had built in the mid-1990’s. On the morning of September 11th, Mayor Giuliani did not go “to his Command Center -- with its clear view of the Twin Towers -- but to a makeshift, street-level headquarters at 75 Barkley Street.“ WTC 7 also held the offices of numerous government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the IRS, and the Security and Exchange Commission. WTC Building 7 was not hit by airplane or any large pieces of significant debris on September 11th. By the afternoon of September 11th, there were a few small fires of unknown origin evident in the b